Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research.
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This volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900. It looks at women working outside conventional canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with canonical forms of artistic production.
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Introduction: Gender and Women’s History
Gill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan Bellamy

Chapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Gill Perry

Chapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writings
Madeline Thompson

Chapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren Land
Chloe Chard

Chapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy Shelley
Richard Allen

Chapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century England
Rosemary O’Day

Chapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of Love
Cicely Palser Havely

Chapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin Smith
Anne Laurence

Chapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.”
Joan Bellamy

Chapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’: Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior Design
Colin Cunningham

Chapter 10: Women, Translation and Empowerment
Lorna Hardwick

Chapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit Women
Susan Mumm

Postscript
Bibliography
Biographies

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Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780719057205
Publisert
2001-02-01
Utgiver
Manchester University Press; Manchester University Press
Vekt
376 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Om bidragsyterne

Joan Bellamy was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Open University between 1984-1990, and founder and director of the Women in the Humanities Research Group. Anne Laurence is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University